Alaa was at the forefront of the Arab Spring, by choice and by the perception of the state. If you have ever evoked the Arab Spring as a motif for your research or advocacy we owe him our attention and advocacy. Next week his hunger strike intensifies. #freeAlaa

It feels like our country is in a death spiral with no bottom in sight.

ProPublica scrambles to check translation in COVID origin story | “Three people with direct knowledge told Semafor that editors at the nonprofit news organization have been reaching out to Mandarin translators” semafor.com/article/10/31/…

If Mitch McConnell had done this on November 3 or 4, 2020, would the Jan. 6th insurrection or the Big Lie have happened? Instead, he refused to say Biden had won.

“Flood the zone with bullshit” is the modus operandi for the lab leak idea. Preprints, GOP 'reports', and now, publications from VANITY FAIR/@ProPublica.

👇 🧵’s 💡 the misinformation:

1️⃣ Not understanding basic biosafety
2️⃣ Leaving out *key* details
3️⃣ Falsifying translations

Today, I'm proud to stand with so many around the world in solidarity with the courageous women and girls in Iran. Your protests have inspired us.

Expert 🧵for Matthew Yglesias and Josh Barro

Has he deleted his 2020 hydroxychloroquine tweets yet?

And yet smarter-than-experts Matthew Yglesias and Josh Barro have used it like a high dose of confirmation bias to feel even smarter. VANITY FAIR & Katherine Eban remind me more and more of SPIN & Celia Farber (see AIDS Denialism).

I hope we don’t normalize the attempted assassination of Nancy Pelosi & the attack on her husband. GOP is trying to make this just another crime story. It isn’t. Like Jan 6, it was an attempt to kill a top elected official. It’s political violence encouraged by MAGA Republicans

What the hell is wrong with you? This was an attempt on the life of the Speaker of the House. You can buy a company but you cannot buy respect. This is grotesque.

All the Obama clips this week have been incredible. He’s the absolute GOAT.

Wow.

Here’s the gist of this conspiracy theory. Don’t give the actual link clicks. It took Elon two days after taking over to post an anti-LGBTQ conspiracy theory at Hillary Clinton about Nancy Pelosi’s attacked husband.

I hope everybody understands what’s going on.

Matching bandaids! I got my COVID bivalent booster and annual flu vaccines at the same time. If you haven’t gotten them yet, you should too!

Elon Musk Hillary Clinton So your first big move after an attempted assassination is to tweet a homophobic and demonstrably false lie from a wholly discredited source? Explain how you're not exactly as awful as people assume you're going to be.

2020 Part 2: 2024
Coming in 2023